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You cannot marry without my permission, and I forbid you ever to speak again of marrying this Indian." The moment had come for the Senora Moreno to find out, to her surprise and cost, of what stuff this girl was made, this girl, who had for fourteen years lived by her side, docile, gentle, sunny, and uncomplaining in her loneliness.
Our traveller then dismounted, and, suffering his bridle to rest upon the neck of the docile beast, he coursed about on all sides, looking close to the earth in hopes to find some ancient traces of a pathway. But his search was vain. His anxieties increased.
His one companion was a small spaniel, simple and affectionate, a she dog, Jennie by name, with whom he slept. Jennie was a docile, loving companion, waiting for him patiently by day in his office until he was ready to go home at night. "Git up, now, Jinnie," he would say. "It's time to git up. We've got to make our coffee now and git some breakfast.
Nothing could be more docile than the pensive lower lip, and the meek curve of the neck; nothing could be more contradictory than the light of its eye; a brooding, baleful fire, quietly biding its time. "Scatter, friends!" cried Red, as he put his foot in the stirrup. "Don't be too proud to take to timber!" He swung over as lightly as a trapeze performer, deftly catching his other stirrup.
I may, however, give a clearer idea of what is meant by such emergencies by an example. It is a case which actually occurred as here narrated. In a school where nearly all the pupils were faithful and docile, there were one or two boys who were determined to find amusement in those mischievous tricks so common in schools and colleges.
But do not ask me to think. I can be the most docile, the most obedient, the most loving of women as long as I forget my knowledge of life; but the moment I remember I become a raging fury; I have no patience with slow processes; 'Revolution' would be my cry, and I could preside with an awful joy at the execution of those who are making the misery now for succeeding generations."
For instance, if he has displeased her; if the advice, given to him with rare wisdom and kindness, was not received with proper eagerness and gratitude." "Oh, my dear monsieur," she replied, "I have no such ardor in proselytizing that I am angry with those who are not docile to my advice. I am, like others, very apt to make mistakes."
They lift their heads, as we pass, looking with curiosity at the two ladies in the military car. Their flat round caps give them an odd similarity. It is as if one saw scores of the same face, differentiated here and there by a beard. A docile hard-working crew, by all accounts, who give no trouble, and are managed largely by their N.C.O.'s.
However, after a pause, she took up her charge, who, ashamed of her tears, and almost overcome with pain, nestled her head in the woman's bosom, and Maltravers walked by her side, while his docile and well-trained horse followed at a distance, every now and then putting its fore-legs on the bank and cropping away a mouthful of leaves from the hedge-row.
"The wolf, fox, bear, and monkey, By piping advice in one key That his pipe should play a prelude To something heaven-tinged not hell-hued, Something not harsh but docile, Man-liquid, not man-fossil." This writing, considered as writing, can only be regarded as a kind of joke, and most probably Browning considered it so himself.
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